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I Do Have Personal Relationships With A Lot Of "fans," In Quotations. I Answer All My Mail, I Get Emails From Fans, And I Try To Answer Them All. That's Important To Me, But Occasionally There's The Thing Where People Basically Ask Me To Write Book Reports For Them, And I Don't Have That Kind Of Time. I Feel Like There's A Certain Sexism Involved, Like Because I'm A Woman I'm Supposed To Constantly Be Like Giving To Everybody.

I Think The [fan] Access Is Complicated, Because It Brings Wonderful Things Into My Life, And It Brings Really Negative Things Into My Life. I Just Try To Keep The Negative Stuff At Arm's Length. Laugh At It And Walk Away.

I Really Love That I'm Giving Myself The Opportunity Finally To Not Have The Pressure Of Every Single Song You Do Having To Be "political" Or Whatever. I'm Just Making What I Wanna Make.

Every Band I've Been In, It's Just Become My Total Life. I Feel Like A Child Star - I've Missed Out On So Much.

I Didn't Go To High School, I Didn't Go To College, I Didn't Have Women's Studies. All Of My Feminist Ideals And Education Have Been Built Around Art And My Friends And Community. And So It's Still Growing.